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Pro and Contra. New Music Stage Within the framework of the Ulysses Platform activities in 2026, the Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic presents the concert series Pro et Contra. New Music

In 2026, the ULYSSES Ensemble tours in June to Milan (Divertimento Ensemble) and Paris (IRCAM ManiFeste Festival) and in October to Barcelona (Festival Mixtur).

Anne Castex’s "Vif-creux" is a new work for ensemble and electronics, co-commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Gaudeamus Festival, and IEMA, and performed in 5 countries.

"Online", co-commissioned by four ULYSSES members, is about virtual sensibility, a special kind of perception and cognition that we develop to navigate the virtual space enabled by technology.

For Lauri Supponen, composition is an act of dreaming of alternative forms of organisation.

Divertimento’s Orchestra Conducting Course retraces the strategies used in the preparation of a public concert.

John Harris is the Festival Director of New Music Dublin in Ireland, and the CEO and Artistic Director of Red Note Ensemble in Scotland. The work of these organisations takes place in many contexts

At Gaudeamus Festival 2026, several members of the IEMA-Ensemble will have the opportunity to shine as soloists or in small chamber music settings.

This project reflects on the social, political, and spiritual aspects of water infrastructure in a four-day programme featuring sound installations, performances, and in-depth exploration.

ULYSSES Emerging Ensemble FRAMES Percussion travels to Oslo, meeting young musicians from the Oslo School of the Arts for an In Situ in the public space.

Ulysses Emerging Ensemble FRAMES Percussion performs at Ultima this year.

Musicians from the Norwegian Academy of Music, the Lviv Philharmonic in Ukraine and the International Ensemble Modern Academy (IEMA) in Frankfurt move into living rooms, kitchens and gardens for this year’s Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, bringing live music to a series of different homes.

At Gaudeamus festival, the IEMA-Ensemble takes the stage for a captivating lunchtime concert, featuring new works by Anne Castex, IEMA composer Haotian Yu and Akim Zvarych.

Ukrainian composer Akim Zvarych is selected to write a new compositon for the IEMA-Ensemble 2025/26, to be presented at the 2026 Gaudeamus festival.

The Strasbourg-based collective lovemusic, a ULYSSES Emerging Ensemble and this year's focus ensemble at Gaudeamus, returns to festival with three concerts over September 12 and 13.

Within the framework of the Ulysses Journeys programme, Gaudeamus and Het Muziek team up for a special project: assembling a string orchestra for the Gaudeamus Festival 2026.

In Yrttitarha, a concert installation composed by Gaudeamus Award 2026 nominee Tytti Arola, percussionist Kalle Hakosalo tends to a herb-garden built on the stage as a way to research and compare various definitions of growth.

Lukas De Clerck brings his self-built telescopic aulos to this year’s Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival.